St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-01
Steady Growth Of MILEAGE
Tributary to st. Paul on
Different Systems.
A Remarkable Record Of
Building, Which Will
Be Exceeded.
st. Paul is Certain to Be-
come the Great Disd.ib-
uting Point.

road center and distributing point can
not be oyereStimated. The cut pub
llshed herewith shows only the lines
of railroads running into the city or
having direct connections with those
that do. If a cut should be prepared
showing all the lines whose cars reach
st. Paul during the course of the year.
this entire page of the GLOBE would not
be sufficient space to contain the names
OF them all. There is hardly road in
| the country which has not some sort et
a trafhc arrangement with the local
lines whereby indirect connection is at
least had with st. Paul. The import
ance of st. Paul is growing ach year in
this respect, a--d it will not be many
years before the present mileage tribu-
tary to the city will be doubled. New
roads have been projected in almost
every direction. Some of them are So
called paper roads, but some day they
will all be built. The present COM
panies which now make this their dis
tributing point are rapidly extending
their systems. Last year fully 5000
miles, as the official reports
have shown, were added. This year fully
that much and thousand more miles
will be. The principal additions will be
made by the Manitoba, the Minnesota
| & Northwestern, the Minneapolis, Sault
Ste. Marie & Atlantic. and the Minneap-
oils & Pacific.
DULUTH, SOUTH SHORE & ATLANTIC
There is still another very important
project under way, which though not
running direct to st. Paul, will to all in
tents and purposes be st. Paul road.
| This is the Duluth, South Shore & At
lantic, now building from Duluth along
the south shore of Lake Superior to the
Sault Ste. Marie. AT that point connec-
ton will be made with the Canadian Pa.
cific, the Grand Trunk and the Brock.
vile roads. Through these connection
will be made with the prominent Amep
lean lines, and routes established which,
will considerably shorten the run to the
principal Eastern sea ports. The Min
neapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic
has the same objective point as the
South Shore line. 1t will also secure
these connections at the Sau1t, and
will shorten the distance from st. Paul
to the seaboard and to foreign ports sew
eral hundreds of miles. The Minneap-
oils & Pacific is building west through
Dakota, and developing a most fertile
grain country. 1t will bring many addi-
tional million bushels of grain to the
Twin Cities markets. The Manitoba.
Jim Hills great system, is rapidly
reaching out for the Missouri. The
Ill hoe al,
some fifty miles west from Minsh. The
track layers are now progressing at the
rate of five miles 4 day, and it will not
be & great many weeks before the Great
falls of the Missouri is reached.
AFUTURE GREAT CITY.
At that point Mr.. Hill owns consider
able real estate, and the chances for
large, flouriShing town there are most
fiattering. There, or somewhere in that
vicinity, connection will be made with
the Montana Central, which road, it is
generally supposed, will eventually
form portion of this rapidly growing
system. How far west the system viii
extend is not known, but rumor has
said for a long time that it was Mr..
Hills Intention to push OH to the
Pacific. The country between st. Paul
and the slope is hardly peopled suf-
HClcHlly JuSG dG tiilS tiiilc W WdIIttIlI uuo
construction of another through line,
but Mr.. Hill is not looking for immedi-
ate returns. He is looking forward to
the future-to the not very distant fu-
ture-when the country between tho
metropolis of the Northwest and the Pa
cific Will be as tlficllly settled as is that
Eastward from st. Paul. That this will
be effected before many more years have
passed every one believes, and when it
is st. Paul will equal New York as a
distributing point. The rapid incoming
of Immigrants to this section of the
country is indicative of what the future
will be. Already the Southwest is being
given the "go-by," and foreigners of all
classes and nationalities are focking
this way.
THE OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE.
If the influx continues Increasing for
the next ten or twenty years in the same
proportion it has in the past four or five
years, how long will it take to settle up
the country through which these trans
atlantic lines now run? The writer re-
members making trip over the North
ern Pacific some three years ago. The
return trip was made five months later.
What had been small villages had in
the meantime grown into tlouriShing
towns, and what,had been nothing but
a boundless prairie was dotted with viii
lagos and haMletS, every enc OF which
| showed indications of rapid growth and
| financial prosperity. Away out West
| i'm Eastern Washington territory trip
was made across land for q distance Of
some forty-Odd miles. Going out the
| writer did not pass single place OF
| habitation, and was compelled to ride
some thirty miles without water. Going
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